When #Climate Change alarmists think your new paper is too alarmist, you know you’ve got a problem. That’s what happened to Carolyn Snyder of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who published a study in “Nature“ this week warning of a catastrophic 13-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperatures. Snyder reached her conclusions by doing an extensive, time-consuming reconstruction of past temperatures using two million years of global sea surface temperatures.

Snyder used ocean sediment cores to create the temperature timeline by cataloging 20,000 such reconstructions and then weighed each one to build a time series of average surface temperatures. After creating this climate record, she says capping all man-made greenhouse gas emissions today still won’t prevent future temperature increases. She calculated a 7-degree Celsius (13 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in a couple thousand years. Other studies have shown that only a complete power shutdown can avoid any future warming.

‘Problematic conclusions’

Climate scientists say the conclusions drawn from the research don’t have the data to back up such claims. Even chief climate guru Gavin Schmidt of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) called the study’s conclusions “simply wrong,” saying there might be a 0.5 to 1.5 degree Celsius or even 2-degree rise if all man-made emissions are stopped now.

Jeffrey Severinghaus of the San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography said Snyder’s conclusions aren’t in sync with the data she collected and are based on one fundamental error: the sensitivity of CO2 on glaciations. He says the “problematic conclusion doesn’t flow from the main meat of the paper.”

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Amber

So now the EPA are stepping out of their regulatory box to manufacture scary global warming stories that other scientific organizations gag on ? Who did the peer review of Snyder’s paper ? How can so called reputable science organizations be hundreds of percent different on their scary global warming predictions and the best actual measurement tool ,satellites ,show virtually no warming in 20 years ? Hhm !!
Now quick before a dog at the EPA eats the source data and climate model program
let’s see the modelers calculations that created this bit of fantasy . No doubt Nature would have been provided a copy too.
Gee can’t wait to see if her scary projections are right …in a couple thousand years .
At least Al Gore was a bit braver with the prophesies of an ice free Arctic that never happened in his time frame . In any event who cares as long as we continue warming
the plants and animals will be overall far better off than a cooling trend once it sets in again .
Can we expect an even greater number of scary global warming stories prior to the election ? Although a 13 Degree F projection going out 2 thousand years from now is a big whooper to top there must be someone in the scary global warming industry that can do it . So what exactly was the IPCC projection ?
In any event lets hope she is right . Think about how much less fossil fuel will need to be used and the fish will have a way bigger play pen too . Plants and trees will be going ballistic with growth .

RobbertBobbert GDQ

Amber,
Hello from Australia where we have so called scientists, and other odd folk, in competition with each other to win Gold, Silver and Bronze in The Climate Catatastrophe Olympics.
I believe Carolyn Snyder has made a spectacular Jump of the Shark to take the lead but i assure you that our Australian Institutions will be on Red Alert and beavering away, day and night, to best this complete and utter Science Fiction.
Prior to this my favourite Climate Study was by Aussie Joelle Gergis.
This paper is well explained at Climate Audit under …Joelle Gergis, Data Torturer…
‘Gergis says that the only problem with the original article was a “typo” in a single word. Rather than “taking the easy way out” and simply correcting the “typo”, Gergis instead embarked on a program that ultimately involved nine rounds of revision, 21 individual reviews, two editors and took longer than the American involvement in World War II. However, rather than Gergis et al 2016 being an improvement on or confirmation of Gergis et al 2012, it is one of the most extraordinary examples of data torture (Wagenmakers, 2011, 2012) that any of us will ever witness…
You may be aware of this sheer stupidity and nonsense paper but any search involving Gergis and Typo will give you plenty of further info.
As you mention …how do these junk studies get published by so called reputable journals and that Peer Review they are always claiming as magnificent but lets such worthless junk as Snyder and Gergis thru?
May I finish with a Back To The Future Gag?
Who were her co authors,. Professor Emmett Brown and Mr Marty McFly and out of The Carolyn Snyder Paper and The Jetson Family Cartoon Show which is the more ‘Science Fiction’ of the pair.
Cheers from The Land of the Kangaroo.

Amber

ROBBERTBOBBERT GDQ
Hello , You raise an excellent point … These people are beginning
to make Al Gore and the IPCC modest in scary predictions .
If Nature is prepared to publish complete crap their credibility is gone
and so will be their business . As they flame out they do more bizarre things to
draw attention . Sort of like many thinly talented pop stars with costume malfunctions and other tricks to get their name out . The USA election has gone to nutville stage for example when both mega liars have ” fact checkers ” .
Maybe people accept being lied to because it’s now a culture of unaccountable .

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Amber

One of the most significant outcomes of the USA election is the public awakening to the utter contempt main street media holds them . Preachy condescending Liberals
pushing for the most part Democrat ideology while shutting out different values and political priorities . Telling the people what to think instead of listening . The Green Party garnering a whopping 1 % of the vote and was supposed to be the champion of what the President claims is the number one threat to the world . Global Warming rebranded Climate Change . Apparently people in the rust belt and over 30 other States disagreed with that as a priority .
The lazy media played along and sold scary climate stories they were spoon fed and in some cases refused to provide any balance to the BS they are spoon fed and have been spewing for years .
When their party lost they were so stunned all they could play was the race card and are still in denial holding out for hopeless recounts or conspiracy theories of Russian espionage and hacking .
The public has now been put back in control so if some clown weather women wants to pitch nonsense the public shifts to more objective information sources. Ones that aren’t the propaganda or fake news tool for a political party .
Universities that are now full on incubators for a one sided left wing agenda are really ripping those kids off but worst of all those like Colorado University have faculty openly saying they will not discuss opposing climate views . Education to Propaganda is a fine line . Colorado crossed it . The LA times crossed it . The Guardian , New York Times …. well what do you expect ?
Peoples actions demonstrated the jig is up . Short those media stocks they are going down .

Amber

If left wing pinko Saunders doesn’t like him he sounds like he has potential .
He looks like a guy with a bit of backbone and won’t be bullied by the Demo rat
whiners who have infiltrated the EPA .
Good luck Mr. Pruitt . …. hire security . When the looney tunes get desperate( and they are ) they go into ugly mode . Taking apart their $Trillion dollar con game is going to get them down right belligerent but who cares ? They did get about 1 % of the vote
after all . In other words the science fiction is settled in the minds of voters by about
99 % . The debate is over in their hot air world .
Drain away Mr. Pruitt the public backs you despite the shrill sound of whiners who just had their piggy bank broken .

Amber

The NASA data manipulators collectively don’t have an IQ over 38 . Bullshit merchants about to be out on their ass . Maybe Britain would like to hire NASA rejects .
Where oh where are Dicaprio and Gore going to get their alarmist propaganda ?
When is the much vaunted IPCC report coming out ? That’s right NEVER .
The jig is up they were played as useful idiots and are no longer required .
Did the IPCC hot pants smut writer ever beat those sexual harassment allegations ? Quality right through the organization .

Amber

Why would virtually no change to Antarctic ice in over 100 years be a surprise at all .
Whether it’s minus – 60 or minus – 58 certainly we know it is fricking cold and it is not about to thaw . Throw a few volcanos open below the surface and a part of it might
but if that is considered caused by climate change the science fiction is bigger than
we know .
The question is how much will the Antarctic grow by over the next 1000 years ?

Amirlach

JayPee

I’m willing to consider your argument, but I’m disturbed of your willing to give credence to the unproven and unfoundedly assumed presumption that CO2, CH4, and any other gasses that the extremist left hates are upon their dictum alone the mythical GREENHOUSE GASSES as they define them to be.

I ask you not to buy into their argument without the proof that they have never had.
They have always had conjecture, lies and hysteria and even a low percentage of consensus ( as if that means anything ).
But they have NEVER had proof of their mythical GREENHOUSE EFFECT ( as defined by the extremist left ).